Detroit's journey from mean to green wins admiration from the Times

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"The gardens are everywhere," writes food scribe Mark Bittman in a moving editorial in the New York Times Opinionator blog. His chronicle of a visit to our city describes Detroit's burgeoning food movement powered by the breadth of our residents' imagination -- and the belief that only we will turn this city around. Local food in public schools. The Peaches & Greens produce truck. And acres and acres of cultivated land, harvesting not only food, but a key to this city's future. If the journey is as important as the destination, Bittman concludes, Detroit's back-to-basics green revival is already a success story.

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As Jackie Victor, co-owner of the Avalon Bakery,
an unofficial meeting place for the Detroit food movement, says to me,
"Imagine a city, rebuilt block by block, with a gorgeous riverfront,
world class museums and fantastic local food. Everyone who wants one has
a quarter-acre garden, and every kid lives within bike distance of a
farm."